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Anastrepha maculata Norrbom

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Recognition
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Anastrepha maculata belongs to the daciformis species group, which differs from other species of Anastrepha in having the basal third of the scutellum brown, the male phallus extremely short (less than 0.30 mm long) and with the glans absent (as in the dentata group), and with the female eversible membrane dorsobasally with a single, medially interrupted row of very stout scales. It differs from other species of the daciformis group except A. stonei in having the distal arm of the V-band present. It differs from A. stonei as indicated in the recognition section for that species, and by the following characters: C-band covering cell r₂₊₃ to beyond level of R-M; spot in cell dm (middle part of S-band) not extended anteriorly beyond vein M; frons, except for small brown spot on ocellar tubercle, and gena entirely yellow; scutellum with 3 dark brown spots (1 medial) between yellow basal and white apical areas; scutum entirely microtrichose (nonmicrotrichose except lateral margin in A. stonei); posterior half of anatergite dark brown (white except posteroventral corner in A. stonei); and subscutellum and mediotergite entirely dark brown, or latter sometimes dark orange with 3 dark brown stripes (in A. stonei, subscutellum orange, often with medial dark brown spot; mediotergite entirely orange). The female terminalia are relatively short compared to the other 3 Antillean species of the daciformis species group.

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Genus: Anastrepha. Species: maculata. Author: Norrbom.
Relationships among the species of Anastrepha were analyzed by Norrbom et al. (1999) and McPheron et al. (1999). Click here for more detailed discussion of Anastrepha phylogeny. Anastrepha maculata has been placed in the daciformis species group. Norrbom (1998) analyzed the relationships among the species of the daciformis group (see Phylogeny of the Anastrepha daciformis group) and considered A. stonei Steyskal to be the species most closely related to A. maculata.

Names Used for this Species
Anastrepha maculata Norrbom 1998: 184.
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Type data
Holotype - Female (USMN), BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Guana Island, 0-80 m., 13-26 Jul 1986, S.E. Miller & M.G. Pogue.

Distribution
Anastrepha maculata is known only from the Virgin Islands and Mona Island (between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola). This species presumably also occurs on Puerto Rico, which is between the Virgin Islands and Mona Island.
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Biology
The biology of Anastrepha maculata is poorly known.  Its host plants are unknown, although it probably attacks fruits of species of Sapotaceae like other species of the daciformis species group.

Economic Significance
Anastrepha maculata is not considered a pest species.

Comments
The name of this species refers to the spots on its mesopleuron and scutellum.

References
Key references are listed below. See fruit fly literature database for additional references.
McPheron, B. A., H.-Y. Han, J. G. Silva & A. L. Norrbom. 1999. Phylogeny of the genera Anastrepha and Toxotrypana (Trypetinae: Toxotrypanini) based upon 16S rRNA mitochondrial DNA sequences, p. 343-361. In M. Aluja & A. L. Norrbom, eds., Fruit flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and evolution of behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [16] + 944 p. [phylogeny]
Norrbom, A. L. 1998. A revision of the Anastrepha daciformis species group (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 100: 160-192. [p. 184, description]
Norrbom, A. L., R. A. Zucchi & V. Hernández-Ortiz. 1999. Phylogeny of the genera Anastrepha and Toxotrypana (Trypetinae: Toxotrypanini) based on morphology, p. 299-342. In M. Aluja & A. L. Norrbom, eds., Fruit flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and evolution of behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [16] + 944 p. [classification & phylogeny]